Oct 25Consistently BiasedHey, sorry for the late post, had to give a talk this morning! I’ve written a bit about QALYs here before, or Quality-Adjusted Life...
Oct 18Pleasantly Simple Myths“When pleasantly simple myths are discarded, the result is a mess. Endless problems need to be addressed.” —Ian Hacking, The Social...
Aug 23Trusting the ProcessHere’s a reasonably sophisticated argument. (I’m not saying that it’s right.) Trust the Process means, care about process over actual...
Sep 8, 2023Game Values vs. Real-Life ValuesMy friend Kjell and I noticed there just aren’t enough podcasts, so we decided to help. Our first episode takes an early look at some of...
Aug 25, 2023The Politics of Age of Empires III’ve been playing a lot of Stellaris lately, but as a kid, the only computer game I really played much was Age of Empires II (AoE2, as in...
Aug 11, 2023I got my guy!So here’s the mind-blowing keynote for Who’s Responsible for ChatGPT? Apparently I have a very expressive face. Anyway, I’ll give you a...
Jun 23, 2023Complexity versus RichnessHere’s some chess jargon: pawns aren’t pieces. Your king, queen, rooks, bishops, and knights are all pieces. But your pawns are just...